World Wide Web affects the new areas of business as it occurs in our lives more and more often. The term "site" becomes well-known and important for the employers and the Internet advertisement more popular since the commercial sites’ visitors are potential clients of the enterprises and institutes. It is noticed that Internet projects often fail: despite of the site is fine, functional and has a lot of useful information, the result is useless or it does not corresponds to its purposes. This happens because of the very simple reason: nobody knows about the site! Among thousands of sites which can be found by the search engine the user can overview and evaluate only few of the search results. Sooner or later sites’ owners find out this fact, and they question themselves: “Why not my site is placed in the first search engine result page?” Moreover, the site’s theme completely corresponds to the query, and the quality of content is fine and even better than the one of competitors. The answer exists: the site is not optimized for the search engines. The main purpose of the paper is to analyze, select and apply in practice the effective search engine optimization strategies and methods. The main contribution of the paper is the detail description of information dynamics and its structure, research of the world popular search engine’s Google work principles and also other search engines’ and directories’ functional peculiarities, analysis of the page ranging algorithms. The... [to full text]

Two important findings in the IPO literature, IPO's underpricing and poor long run stock returns, are investigated by using the sample of IPOs completed in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) from 1994 to 1999. The evidence suggests that Thai IPOs are underpriced and have poor long run stock returns. Rock 's (1986) model is employed to explain the underpricing of Thai IPOs. Rock's model is supported by the evidence of Thai IPOs. Past market conditions and the stock liquidity of the IPOs' industries are the main factors which affect investor demand for IPO shares. IPOs which go public in the hot market conditions (periods with high past market return) and IPOs which come from liquid industries (industries which have high stock turnover) attract more investor demand. These two factors are also positively correlated with IPO first day return. This suggests that investors have higher demand for IPOs which go public in the hot market conditions and IPOs which come from liquid industries because these IPOs are underpriced, and the underpricing of these IPOs is corrected during the first trading day. IPOs with low investor demand underperform their benchmarks in the long run. On the contrary, the long run returns of IPOs with high investor demand are not significantly different from their benchmarks. One possible explanation for the underperformance of IPOs with low investor demand is that these IPOs may be illiquid. The lack of demand during the first trading day may cause their first closing price to be different from their intrinsic value. This difference is gradually adjusted in the long run leading to the underperformance of these IPOs. This hypothesis is supported by the evidence. The sample of rights offerings announced in the SET between 1994 and 1999 also supports the role of liquidity in explaining the poor long run performance of issuers. The change in operating performance of IPOs from the IPO-year to the post-IPO years also has some power in explaining the long run underperformance of IPOs. IPOs which perform more badly after going public have poor long run returns.

This diploma thesis deals with use of internet marketing, content marketing and SEO in terms of creating content plan for a corporate blog. Its structure is divided in two sections. Theoretical part enables the reader to get an insight into the issues of internet marketing, marketing communication, content marketing, browser optimization, and web analytics. Practical part offers the author's analysis of a corporate blog and its published content by means of web analytics. Evaluation and recommendation of further approaches in the above-mentioned fields provided by the author can be regarded a conclusion of this thesis.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the way to improve the visibility of a website on thesearch engine result page (SERP). If the website is not on the first three result, then it will bemissing most of the traffic that could be generated. This report will go into detail on how towork with SEO and how to get a website to rank high. Both On-page, how to work with codeand content, and Off-page, how to get more links, methods will be discussed, with a higherfocus on On-page.This paper strives to find what methods and techniques to use with the results gathered fromscientific databases, interviews and three websites with different levels of SEOimplementation. How to structure the code, where and how to use keywords, domain name,links and much more will be discussed in this paper.

Rapporten handlar om sökmotoroptimering för en ny webbplats. Rapporten täcker teorier och praktiska utförda experiment på webbplatsen. Syftet med rapporten var att vi skulle få mer kunskap kring sökmotoroptimering speciellt inriktad på Googles sökmotortjänst. Vi ville ta reda på hur man kan rankas så högt upp som möjligt på sökresultatssidan för specifika sökord. Då vi har läst webbprogrammering i nästan tre år utan att utbildningen gett oss några direkta kunskaper kring sökmotoroptimering föll detta som ett lämpligt val att fördjupa oss i. Metoder som täcks i denna rapport är indexering av en webbplats, rankning, PageRank, generell sökmotoroptimering och regionala skillnader på ett sökresultat hos Google. Teorier vi undersökte övergripande var om Googles sökmotor, Sandlåda Effekten, PageRank, Textlänkar, Meta taggar,Domännamn, Webbplatskartor och Webbdokumentet beträffande deras påverkan för sökmotoroptimering. Resultatet blev att webbplatsen vi sökmotoroptimerade rankades både bra och mindre bra på nyckelorden samt att webbplatsen blev generellt sökmotoroptimerad för sökmotorer. Resultatet från de praktiska experimenten blev delvis lyckade och slutsatsen blev att vi fått goda kunskaper om sökmotoroptimering av teoristudierna och det praktiska genomförandet. / The report is about search engine optimization for a new website. The report covers the theories and practical experiments carried out on the website. The aim of the report was that we would end up with more knowledge about SEO focused on the Google search engine service. We wanted to find out how to rank as high as possible on the search results page for each specific keyword. As we have read the web-programming in nearly three years without the studies given us any direct knowledge of SEO, this dropped as an appropriate choice to deepen ourselves in. Methods that covers in this report are the indexing of a website, ranking, PageRank, general search engine optimization and regional differences in a search results in Google. Theories we investigated was whether the overall Google search engine, Sandbox effect, PageRank, Text Links, Meta Tags, Domain Name, Site Maps, Website-document and their impact on SEO. The result was that the site was search engine optimized, we ranked both good and less good on the key words, and the website in general was SEO for search engines. The results from the practical experiments were partially successful and it was concluded that we had got good knowledge about SEO theory-studies and practical implementation.

A webpage can be perfectly usable but if users are unable to find the webpage it will remain unused. Nine out of ten Swedes use a search engine and the most popular one is Google, amongst other search engines. In this report I seek to answer which ranking factors that should be included in an SEO-audit of an existing webpage and also how to optimize a webpage for search engines. Applying the method heuristic evaluation normally used to discover usability issues in an existing interface, on TT News Agency’s campaign site I found issues having a negative impact on the visibility in Search Engines Page Results. The issues were found in the technical implementation, such as faulty redirects, poor URLs, ill usage of subdomains, no adaption for mobile browsers and wrong usage of page titles, but also in the link profile. The campaign site had few external links and the anchor text attribute was not properly used. The content suffered from lack of key word usage in meta descriptions and H1-tags and there was also duplicate content. My evaluation resulted in a list with prioritized actions to take in order to improve the visibility of the webpage in the Search Engine Page Results. / En webbsida kan vara hur användbar som helst, men om inga användare hittar till den förblir den oanvänd. Nio av tio svenskar uppger att de använder en sökmotor och vanligast av sju konkurrenter är Google. I mitt examensarbete undersöker jag hur en webbsida kan sökmotoroptimeras och vilka rankingfaktorer som borde inkluderas i en SEO-rapport. Genom att applicera metoden heuristisk utvärdering, vanlig inom användarstudier, på TT Nyhetsbyråns kampanjsajt kunde jag identifiera problemområden med den tekniska implementationen, länkprofilen samt innehållet. Problemen återfanns i ompekningar, URL-er och nyttjandet av subdomäner och i sidtitlar. Sajten hade få inlänkar och ankartexten var ofta felaktig. Innehållsmässigt fann jag problem med att sökorden saknades i metabeskrivningar samt H1-taggar, och det fanns också dubbelt innehåll. Jag drog slutsatsen att SEO bör handla om att optimera för användaren som använder en sökmotor och inte optimering för sökmotorn. Min undersökning resulterade i en prioriterad lista med åtgärder att vidta för att förbättra synligheten i sökmotorer.

Examensarbetet Seostik, sökmotorstatistik som säljstöd, genomfördes, på uppdrag av ClearSense AB i Kalmar. Syftet var att utveckla en webbapplikation som ska underlätta försäljningen av webbtjänster åt företaget. ClearSense arbetar huvudsakligen med sökmotoroptimering och sökmarknadsföring. Sökmotoroptimering som är ett hett ämne tilldelas mycket resurser men få talar om den verkliga effekt som optimeringen har på en webbplats. Med det utvecklade verktyget Seostik gör vi det möjligt att se effekterna av sökmotoroptimering både på lång och kort sikt. Applikationen har utvecklats enligt MVC-mönstret i PHP med en MySQL-databas. Verktyget behandlar även teknikerna JavaScript, XHTML och XML. Projektet har resulterat i en färdig webbapplikation som förhoppningsvis kommer att bli en viktig del i ClearSense dagliga arbete och utveckling av webbtjänster.

Denna rapport är resultatet av ett tio veckors långt examensarbete med fokus på området sökmotoroptimering. Arbetet utgörs av en kombination av litteraturstudier och praktisk tillämpning. Syftet var att undersöka om det är möjligt att påverka en webbsidas ranking på Google positivt med enbart on page-metoder, det vill säga genom förändringar på den aktuella webbplatsen. Det praktiska arbetet har utförts på Rabble Communications AB, där fem av deras webbsidor utgör undersökningsobjekt. De teorier och riktlinjer som samlats in under litteraturstudien har applicerats på dessa sidor för att verifiera dess effektivitet samt för att se om det går att se resultat snabbare än vad tidigare forskning säger. Resultaten pekar på att det går att nå högre placeringar på Google genom enbart on page-metoder, dessutom inom tidsramen för detta examensarbete.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the marketing tools of an e-commerce company, to evaluate them and to propose suggestions for improvement which will be implemented in the company strategy. The theoretical part describes the history of the Internet and its importance in the current business environment, the strategic procedures applied in online marketing and the description of individual marketing instruments. The practical part introduces the company, its products and its main competitors. Afterwards follows the analysis and comparison of the main online marketing tools and proposals for improvement which should be implemented in the marketing strategy are presented.

As a reaction to problems of the portal iKariera.cz with low numbers of visitors and registered users the thesis tries to evaluate the suitability, contributions and effectiveness of chosen online marketing tools and also their potential for solving those problems for the future. The thesis compares the contributions and effectiveness of SEO, PPC campaigns in the search engine of Google and campaigns at social network site Facebook.com with other offline and cross media campaigns realized at the same time. On the basis of a comparison of the outputs and other facts the thesis tries to give future oriented recommendations for the formulation of a marketing communication strategy for the portal."